Chemical And Biomolecular Engineering

Arun Majumdar, director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E), knows the United States faces challenges to its technological lead and to energy security.  “In many cases our nation is lagging behind and needs to change course with fierce urgency,” says Majumdar, who will deliver the John R. Read More

  K. Arthur Overholser K. Arthur Overholser, senior associate dean of the school of engineering and professor of biomedical engineering and chemical engineering, has been selected to join ABET’s (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) Academic Advisory Council. The AAC’s inaugural meeting was October 2010. The council provides a formal… Read More

Clinical Application of Fluctuation Spectroscopy and Multiphoton Microscopy October 31st, 2011, SC 5326 3:00 p.m. Michael J. Levene Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Fluctuation spectroscopy is a powerful technique for measuring diffusion, chemical kinetics and photophysics that has been used by the Biophysics… Read More

The Vanderbilt Career Center (VCC) hosted an Engineering Industry Career Day at the Student Life Center with 57 companies from across the nation in attendance on Sept. 27. Industry Career Days are invitation-only events which offer a smaller, more intimate atmosphere in order to facilitate connections between employers and… Read More

Manipulation of Energy and Mass Transport at Micro/Nanoscale for Engineering Applications October 10th, 2011, SC 5326 Deyu Li Department of Mechanical Engineering Vanderbilt University Micro/Nanoscale energy and mass transport attracts much attention over the past decade because it involves rich physics and has extensive applications. In this… Read More

The Materials Science and Applications of Smart Electronic Ceramics September 26, 2011, SC 5326 Richard E. Eitel Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY Smart materials can be defined as materials which “respond to an external change in a useful manner without… Read More

To mark the School of Engineering’s 125th anniversary in 2011-2012, its annual distinguished lecture — The John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture — becomes a special series bringing four notable engineering leaders to campus, one each in October, November, January and March. Davis Mark E. Davis,… Read More

  K. Arthur Overholser, senior associate dean of the school of engineering and professor of biomedical engineering and chemical engineering, has been appointed chair of the Diversity Task Force of the Undergraduate Experience Committee within the Engineering Deans Council of the American Society for Engineering Education. Founded in 1893,… Read More

Multi-scale structure/function modeling of fuel cell electrolytes September 19, 2011, SC 5326 S. J. Paddison Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996 U.S.A. Proton exchange membranes (PEMs) are the electrolyte in current state-of-the-art fuel cells and function as not only… Read More

The Vanderbilt School of Engineering moved up two places to No. 34 among engineering schools whose highest degree awarded is a doctorate in the 2012 Best Colleges rankings released by U.S. News & World Report Sept. 13. The School of Engineering tied with the University of California-Davis, the University of… Read More